Why women are the new campus radicals.
Well, it’s because women are now dominating academia.
My Current Travails
I missed my 7AM flight to LA from Vegas this morning, because I’m a dumbass, and went to the wrong concourse, and by the time I figured it out, it was too late to get to the right one (Note to self: in the future, look at your boarding pass). They put me on standby for the next flight that was scheduled for 1130 (and all flights are 100% full, because they’re still trying to recover from the CRWD update that had the same effect as a cyberattack). At 10, they rescheduled the flight for 1936. So I’ve now been here for ten hours, with a couple to go before I board. If I board. If not, I’ll go back to the hotel I’ve been staying and try for the 7AM flight tomorrow that I missed today.
So how’s your day going? Besides Biden ending his campaign. Or someone writing a letter ostensibly from him saying that he’s ending his campaign, without really explaining why. I wonder if he knows that he’s ending his campaign? Anyway, as Joe would say, anyway.
Thoughts from Mark Steyn.
[Monday-evening update]
Sorry for the lack of update. Yes, I caught a (slightly) earlier flight and got home last night.
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The Art Of Democratic Democracide
The Art of Democratic Democracide
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) July 22, 2024
Democrats are destroying democracy by engineering a veritable coup through forcing out Biden from the race—but not from the presidency.
Here are ten of their new rules of American democracy that they have now bequeathed to us.
1) The…
How The Secret Service Failed
An analysis by Jim Meigs.
Hisamitsu
For years, I’d been wondering what that little phrase was that you hear women sing at the end of commercials for Salonpas pain reliever. I did eventually manage to track it down. It sounds like “Sammy too,” but it’s actually the manufacturer with the name of the title of this post (obviously Japanese). I would have thought it was pronounced HIsaMITsu, but apparently it’s HiSAMItsu .
Anyway, they must have finally gotten the message from viewers that it was a head scratcher, so for the first time this morning, I saw an ad in which they actually showed the word at the end. It’s funny that they’d been singing it for all these years with complete ineffectiveness at conveying what it was.
[Update later afternoon]
Apparently I misspelled it: It’s Hisamitsu.
55 Years
It’s not too late to do a ceremony to commemorate the first landing on another world. Download here.
Bob Newhart
RIP. He was a very funny guy, with a deadpan delivery that couldn’t be beat. A great straight man as well. And not just visually. He was famous for his hilarious phone calls, in which you only heard his side. We had one of his albums when I was a kid in the 60s. It was called “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart.” Here’s an example:
It’s funny, but I recently saw a rerun of the 80s show, and I’ve had the theme song (which was by Henry Mancini!) getting stuck in my head periodically since. The last episode might have been one of the most brilliant endings of any television series, if you were a fan of the show in the seventies. It was part of one of the best Saturday-night prime-time comedy lineups in television history, with All in the Family, and Mary Tyler Moore. Oh, and Mash.
Inhibition of IL-11
…dramatically extends life span and health span in mice.
I’d take it, absent any safety issues.
Whither California
Is there any hope?
Fdisk Problem
I want to back up to an older SSD, but when I open it to look at it with fdisk, I get the message: “fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Invalid argument”
Any ideas?
[Update Monday morning]
I gave up on the drive, and went out and bought a new one at Best Buy.
[July 17th update]
So, I copied my Linux OS to the new drive using dd. But it won’t boot. It acts like its starting to boot, but the Fedora thing just spins ad infinitum. It won’t boot in the same desktop that I copied the OS from, or from the laptop. Any ideas?
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